[gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is identical. I tried (or: I am still trying) to checksum the first disk with whirlpooldeep /dev/sda whch seems to work

[gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

Dale gmail.com> writes: > If you know of a way bonnie will help, let me know. I don't have it > installed and don't really know much about it except that it does tests. Maybe ZCAV will help? http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/zcav/ >From the bonnie++ home page: "The ZCAV program which I initia

[gentoo-user] [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

I've been looking for a perl based search tool that uses some kind of indexing to index and render searchable my home library of software manual and the like. Quite a few html pages involved, maybe 15-16,000. Webglimpse is something I've worked with before and know a bit about but thought I might

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

KH wrote: Am 03.06.2010 06:46, schrieb Dale: As for the lifetimes in the report, good question. I think that drives is doing some weird stuff. It can travel back and forth in time but is slow for no apparent good reason. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, you just made me smile. Thank's. k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

James wrote: Dale gmail.com> writes: Hi folks, I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I tested them Try bonnie and bonnie++ both in portage. hth, James I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

Dale gmail.com> writes: > > Hi folks, > > I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I > would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange > results when I tested them Try bonnie and bonnie++ both in portage. hth, James

[gentoo-user] A very strange problem with rc-update

Hi,everybody, I got a very very strange problems. I have install gnome, and when I try to add hal to default runlevel, use command "rc-update add hald default", it is normal and output of rc-update show is right but when I restart computer, the hald doesn't auto start, when I log in the system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with rsync (emerge --sync)

On Thursday 03 June 2010 19:55:29 walt wrote: > On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote: > > Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database for > > portage? > > > > It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now its > > doing it again.. > > > > # emerge --sync